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A modest Bonds proposal

The following is out of the usual purview of the Cod, but within the compass of the obsessions of its authors -- single minded food folk can skip--we'll be returning to our regularly scheduled nonsense and detailing vast conspiracies soon enough:
Here is my proposal. From henceforth, every pitcher who faces Barry Bonds hits him with the first pitch they throw. Not a beaning, just a pitch delivered to a fleshy area. The first time it happened, tempers would flare. The second, ejections. The third, suspensions. But then what? If Bonds gets 12 ab or so in a three game series, that's 12 pitchers suspended. The next series, the same thing happens. Eventually continuing the season becomes untenable, b/c there are no pitchers available. But the season remains untenable, as long as every pitcher refuses to pitch to Bonds. Eventually, the season would either collapse, or Bonds would have to sit. Would Selig let the season collapse? This would, of course, require the commitment of every pitcher and manager on every team that Bonds faces, and would be massively disruptive. But if the alternative is to pretend it's ok, it might be worth a try.

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I think this notion could get a lot of play on AM radio until somebody realizes that the idea was inspired by the movie "Stick It" and then everybody's going to want to take a shower and lynch you.

I listened the other day to about an hour devoted to the merits of the Red Sox redeeming themselves from their racist past and MLB from its recent negligent stewardship of the national pastime by claiming Boston Brave Henry Aaron as an honorary member of the Red Sox and retiring his number when the Giants visit Fenway.